Cristina Lopes

Cristina Videira Lopes is a Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine. Prior to being a professor, she was a Research Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). While at PARC, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org. More recently, she has been working in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.

Biography
Lopes received a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1998 under Karl Lieberherr and Gregor Kiczales.